But what if we're wrong? : thinking about the present as if it were the past / Chuck Klosterman.

Author Klosterman, Chuck, 1972- author.

Description272 pages ; 22 cm

Abstract:"We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure--until, of course, they don't. But What If We're Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:9780399184123 (hardback)

ISBN:0399184120 (hardback)

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